Nokia 808 PureView is a camera engineering marvel - are you getting one?

0.phoneArena
27 Feb 2012, 13:52posted on

What we are interested in is whether you are intrigued by Nokia's bombshell device as a phone, and if you are planning to get one the day it comes out, or are already distracted by something else. Checkmark our little poll and sound off in the comments...

Doubt we'll see everything this phone has to offer, running Windows Phone by the end of the year. Not a big fan of the design either. Would love to see another N8 looking phone with a bigger 4.3" display on it plus all this has to offer. HDMI is still something we've yet to see on WP so hopefully since Apollo allows for microSD expansion, it will allow for HDMI as well. It's crazy how immature WP still is in so many respects.

Even though this phone isn't actually that great of a phone, it is the thing at the back that it's designed for. It may change the future of camera's, at least for a certain line of phones. Either way it is a great technology.

It'll sell to a niche group. The N8 which sold well by 'nokias' sales standards but poorly in the global comparison scale and from returns we had instore it was not without a fair few software and hardware problems most notably freezing and self charging till the battery died quickly without actually being connected to a charger.

Don't get me wrong I had an N8 and loved the cameras photos but it too was a fairly limited phone,the os is dated and the browser was only ok at best incomparison to other smartphone browsers,facebook apps wouldn't open half people status updates,links or photos.

Most people certainly wouldn't sacrifice 400 bucks or a bill upgrade for 2 years for the sake of the camera. No professional photographers would swap an dslr for this 41mp camera either as zoom functions and optical zooms for instance are very limited in the 808

How come you didn't just edit what you said and just said "Nailed It!" instead you realized your error, left it there, and showed what you meant to say? Not trying to be a douche but that just stood out to me when scrolling down.

29.thatdude1 (unregistered)

Andro, have you ever tried Belle on Nokia hardware? I would wager that you have not. It's really good. Its definitely is not dated. This phone will definitely sell well where Symbian is strong, and will do better than average in places that Symbian is not so strong. You clearly don't like anything other than Android, which is fine, so why bother wasting your time commenting on anything other than Android?

Its a wager you'd have lost,my n8 when i had it was on Anna and my N700 when i had it was on Belle,its handy working in the phone industry as lots of manufacturers give you phones to mess around with it! ;-)

Anna was an improvement in software but still dated,belle is better but merely was so because it brings in pull down task bar features ala android style and a few tweaks. Mostly the improvements were cosmetic in nature. I do infact prefer belle to windows and sales wise we have definitely sold more nokia symbian phones than windows.

Still both are really show their level in the industry by the sales figures they have ended up on. Nokias best phones ultimately are its features phones which have prolific sales and zero trouble. They are the very life of nokias sales figures year in year out and will continue to be so

Belle was not just cosmetic changes. It was the whole system written from the ground up using the new qt engine. Brought large improvements in operation and use of system resources. I'll point out one that i expect you'll understand. With Anna, it was common to run out of RAM especially using opera mobile with lots of pages open. With Belle, that has never happen, even with more than 10 apps running, several pages open in opera mobile, and thats a phone with only 256MB RAM.

Its gonna be like the n8,a fantastic camera but nobody wanting the mediocre phone. The N8 camera was the best camera ive ever used. Unfortunately most of the people who bought an n8 was for the camera itself rather than the phone.

The 41mp camera here will be wasted on an os that nobody wants and nobody buys in windows phone.

There will be some other very capable shooters on very popular and very top level smartphones this year on platforms much more capable than windows

6.thatdude1 (unregistered)

Gotta disagree with you there, andro. I happen to own a Nokia N8 and it's a fantastic smartphone, and not just because of the camera. The N8 was a hit for Nokia, hence the follow up in the 808 pureview. The OS on the phone(Symbian/Nokia Belle)is a joy to use and is a powerful one at that. And the 808 will be running Belle out the gate, not Windows. This phone is destined, at the very least, to be every bit as popular as the N8.

The phone is being released with Symbian Belle, not Windows Phone. And despite the fact that you clearly have something against Windows Phone 7 (as evidenced by almost every one of your posts in WP7 related articles), it is a good operating system.

Choice is a good thing, and companies innovating for the platform you may not like will still benefit you in the long run, so don't be so hateful toward them.

Lol @ the last option in the poll. Very trollish choice there to end it with the comment about apps. How about just leaving the option at "My smartphone camera is good enough, so I'm not going to change phones for it?"

30.thatdude1 (unregistered)

Finally I can have what I was waiting for my entire life!!! N8 made my dream come true for the most part, but this one is unbelievable. It's a true marvel of technology, and only Nokia could have done it!!!

I don't see why people are unhappy with Symbian OS. It's a pretty good OS, much more efficient than iOS and Android, which is why N8 with 680MHz processor and 256MB ram has an unbelievably amazing performance (despite my initial doubts). Plus it's a very stable OS. I have never seen it crashing so far despite the fact that I torture it quite a bit on a regular basis.

you must be kidding !!! i am with nokia since old times but can't say that Symbian is comperable to IOS Or Android !!! NO way sir ..
they even kill the memo and mego which was a really good OS if they support it !!

Just put iOS or Android on a device with 680MHz cpu and 256MB ram, and you will see why Symbian is better. Even Satio with 600MHz cpu and the ancient S60 has a brilliant performance. Everyday I amaze my Android and iOS friends with my N8 and Satio.

There may not be as many apps for Symbian as there is for Android and iOS, but the Symbian OS on its own is very capable.

41 MP might be a little too much. Since it's an amazing camera phone, it better be water proof, sand proof, shake proof and everything proof. Otherwise, I drop my phone too often as it is. I know I would break that camera easily. Now they need to cramp 1 TB hard drive in that baby to store all that super high quality pictures.

Why do all of keep saying 41MP is too much? Have you actually tried to find out the reason they are using the 41MP in the first place? Personally the ability of zooming into what ever i am capturing is really something to love. And in the fact that you get better low light performance. Seriously, anybody that uses their phone camera heavily will want these qualities.

Why is there so much hate here towards pureview 808? Is it cos its a Nokia? Or is it cos its Symbian..or both? You ppl all hate Nokia cos you know it was once a king and it can take back the throne if it really tries and you ppl are eager not to let that happen cos the brand you support will be down the drain wen that happens..And regarding symbian, i agree its a dead platform, but so wat? it still does well wat its supposed to do and does it better than any other fone out there wen u just compare fones with similar hardware. and no i'm not a troll or a fanboy, i'm just in awe of the technology nokia has developed. 'm using samsung omnia w, so 'm neither a nokia fan nor a symbian fan. there are some things that are facts and there's no denying it..Nokia is a great company and symbian is a good os, not an awesome one like ios or wp, but still good..

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